Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 536

Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign is still in progress, not only the tobacco soil of Ming Dynasty is confiscated, but also the tobacco soil of the tobacco companies in France, the Netherlands and other countries are also confiscated.

Nationalists throughout England couldn't help cheering, thinking that this time Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign was a great event worthy of being remembered by history.

Liverpool was only a small town with a population of a few hundred, but because of the rise of Ming's opium trade with England, it has become an important cargo transit point for the whole of England.

And on this day, Cromwell also wanted to do something extraordinary in this extraordinary place. He ordered people to carry more than [-] catties of opium in boxes to a wilderness, and in the wilderness by the sea, He ordered people to dig dozens of large pits and ponds, and a group of British soldiers and civilians came to watch. It was crowded with people and it was very lively.

Cromwell ordered people to lay stones under the big pit pool, and then nailed planks around it. He also dug a ditch, poured salt water into the ditch and flowed into the pool, and divided the opium and smoke soil into several pieces. Just drop into the salt water, soak for half a day, then add quicklime, the quicklime will quickly dissolve the soot when it meets water, and then keep stirring, so that the soot is completely dissolved in the water. Pool, leaving no residue.

This is Cromwell's cigarette sales in Liverpool. In this world, he failed to become the leader of the British bourgeois revolution, but he also became a national hero in England because of Liverpool's cigarette sales.

It seems that awesome people will be awesome no matter in which historical plane.

Perhaps Cromwell himself didn't know that he had plagiarized a Han official named Lin Zexu in this act, but in fact, there was still a gap between his cigarette destruction in Liverpool and Lin Zexu's Humen destruction of cigarettes. He only destroyed more than [-] cigarettes. The smoke and soil cannot compare to the generosity of Lin Zexu. Millions of smoke and soil were directly destroyed in Humen.

Charles I was also very excited. Cromwell's behavior was very exciting, and it also allowed him to taste the good taste of the monarch's dictatorship, which could easily cause an empire's trade to suffer losses.

Of course, also because of Cromwell's actions, his prestige among the low-level people and handicraftsmen has increased, and the rule of the Stuart dynasty seems to have been consolidated because of this.

As a result, Cromwell was conferred the title of Marquess of Liverpool by Charles I, which was regarded as a compliment to him for selling cigarettes in Liverpool.

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"I just got the news that Yingjili, this small island country, forcibly confiscated a total of millions of catties of tobacco soil from various major tobacco companies in Daming! They also killed my people and injured several people!"

Zhu Youxiao made a special call for a big move this day, and hung a huge global map on the Golden Luan Hall of his Qianqing Palace, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, to point to the officials of the court in front of him. position, and then sat back with a wave of his sleeves: "My dear friends, let's discuss how to deal with this matter!"

In fact, many officials had already learned that the tobacco soil of the major tobacco and soil companies in Daming had been forcibly confiscated and destroyed by Yingjili, so no one was surprised at this time, and they all couldn't wait to express their opinions.

In addition to the royal capital of Meisheng Company, there are also several opium companies with private capital. Most of these companies are the companies of the cabinet ministers present. , It is also to let them form a competition mechanism with Meisheng Company. After all, Meisheng Company cannot be the only company that loses its aggressiveness. Overseas colonial expansion.

But what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that the conservative leader Cheng Jiming was the first to speak out.

Cheng Jiming picked up the elephant wat and bowed to Zhu Youxiao, and said: "Your Majesty, Yingjili's move has harmed the majesty of our great country, but since ancient times, this overseas barbarian country has always been arrogant, rebellious, and unruly. The sea is thousands of miles away, although my Master of the Ming Dynasty has countless elite soldiers and powerful generals, they are beyond our reach, and this is also another country's internal affairs, so it is not easy to interfere."

"Mr. Ge's words are wrong. What is the internal affairs of other countries? A little Yingjili is clearly provoking my Daming on purpose. If smoking is banned in the internal affairs, it should be completely banned. Why only attack me, Daming? This is clearly to see me, Daming." The tobacco soil is of good quality, and for the sake of their own country’s tobacco and soil merchants, the trade protectionism implemented by them can tolerate the continuous increase of tariffs in the past, but now they are blatantly robbing the tobacco soil of my Ming merchants and directly destroying it. This action depends on the majesty of our Ming Dynasty!"

It was Yang Sichang who spoke out. After receiving Zhu Youxiao's approval and investment, Yang Sichang's father, Yang He, also ran a tobacco company after he retired and became an official. As a result, he became the top richest family in Ming Dynasty. Will’s anti-smoking campaign suffered a lot. In addition, he was a hawk in charge of the Ministry of War, so he became more radical. He directly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that we must deal a heavy blow to Yingji in order to show our strength. Great Ming’s national prestige, protect our Ming’s commercial exchanges, otherwise, in the future, other countries will follow the example of England, our Ming’s maritime trade will be greatly damaged, the treasury’s income will also drop sharply, and the pockets of all the gentlemen here will also be deflated a lot!”

As soon as Yang Sichang said this, the court officials present couldn't help but blush. Although it was difficult to say it clearly, they had to admit that what Yang Sichang said was true. Because of the rise of the tobacco trade, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were smeared.

For a moment, even Chen Zilong, a young official who was in charge of Cheng Jiming's student and current household division, also stood up: "Your Majesty, I have the audacity to advise Your Majesty King Xing to crusade against England!"

"The minister also agrees!"

"The minister also agrees!"

The ministers were very indignant.

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Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help sighing to himself, when did the court ever act like this? It seems that it is unreliable to talk about loyalty to these officials. Only when this kind of common interests are damaged, can everyone hold together. Now It seems that there is no reformist conservative party, except for a few cowering old guys like Cheng Jiming, almost no one raises objections, and even the old people like Cheng Jiming shut their mouths. They didn't dare to speak anymore, and they didn't want to offend all the officials.

Zhu Youxiao immediately made a decree, ordering Admiral Yang Sichang to supervise the military affairs of England, and to go to England with the first squadron of the Nanyang Fleet, and to fight against England on behalf of Zhu Youxiao.

However, according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, Li Dingguo will directly command the battle against Britain, while Yang Sichang will only be in the middle.

(End of this chapter)